Rapture Fails to Materialize; Losers Hardest Hit
Keith Bauer, a 38-year-old tractor-trailer driver from Westminster, Md., took last week off from work, packed his wife, young son and a relative in their SUV and crossed the country.
If it was his last week on Earth, he wanted to see parts of it he’d always heard about but missed, such as the Grand Canyon and the Painted Forest. With maxed-out credit cards and a growing mountain of bills, he said, the rapture would have been a relief.
Hey, if you have a family and are deep in debt, the only rational thing to do is take a week off and travel around because you think the world is about to end.
Really too bad that Mr. Bauer couldn’t find the “relief” he sought.
Well, just to be safe, I had one hell of a “last meal.”
Ed from SFV (cf17f9) — 5/21/2011 @ 8:32 pmI’m gonna go see if the chickens are still on sale at Ralph’s I never got back there all week but I made room in my freezer just in case.
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/21/2011 @ 8:48 pmIf only Harold Camping and Keith Bauer had taken a minute to read Matthew 24:36,
But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
Clearly, if God is keeping the day and hour from the angels in heaven and Jesus himself, he sure isn’t going to tell a bunch of self-promoting yahoos looking for their 15 minutes of fame and can’t even be bothered to read His book.
Dana (4eca6e) — 5/21/2011 @ 8:49 pmBeing a good Baptist boy way back in the ’60s, end-of-the world prophecies concerned me.
As I grew older, they kept coming, and never happened. Regardless, they go back long before I entered the mortal coil.
Dana is right, but I do feel some sympathy for those wishing an immediate ascension to heaven, unless they trained to fly, but not land, airplanes.
Ag80 (1bc637) — 5/21/2011 @ 10:00 pmI was struck by that oversight,Dana, and the context there in, would indicate most would not suspect, as in the time of Noah.
ian cormac (72470d) — 5/21/2011 @ 10:17 pmPeople who are spreading this “doomsday” hogwash fall into these categories:
1) Ignoramuses who consider themselves Christian but who either haven’t read Scripture or don’t comprehend what they’ve read.
The principle of “Sola Scriptura” leaves its adherents without any historical context or other evidence to help them to understand the meaning of Scripture. “Sola Scriptura” excludes the oral traditions passed down from the Apostles to their successors, despite the fact that oral tradition, rather than writing, was the predominant means of transmission of knowledge in Biblical times. So they have to guess what it means on their own – or rely on the equally uninformed guesswork of modern-day theorists.
2) People who are not committed to any faith at all, but whose temperament leaves them susceptible to panic from outside influences.
3) People who exploit those in the above two categories for money, power, and personal aggrandizement.
1389AD (433ee3) — 5/21/2011 @ 10:33 pmI’ll be honest…
I’m just pissed off I couldn’t think of a way to get these idiots to donate all their stuff to me…
Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 5/21/2011 @ 11:34 pmno the chickens are back at like $9 each which, that’s not value
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/22/2011 @ 1:04 amRemember the old days, when debts had to be paid back? Now people know there are umptisteen ways to duck it. This, our new era of capricious bailouts and moral hazard.
For those of us who believe our nation’s debt could lead to high inflation or economic collapse, actually it’s a good financial strategy to borrow and spend as much OPM as you can, without worrying about ever paying back. I can’t bring myself to do that, but it’s probably the smart play.
gp (29257e) — 5/22/2011 @ 1:08 amyou could have set up a business like the atheist who promised (for over $100 per head) to take care of the rapturee’s pet’s after they (those raptured not he dogs) had left the rest of us behind.
Quasimodo (90bc53) — 5/22/2011 @ 3:58 amI wonder if he made much off that.
Bauer reminds me of a faithful Obama voter.
Dustin (c16eca) — 5/22/2011 @ 4:39 amPerhaps we should be grateful that you’re not presenting this one as a metaphor for the “American citizenry.”
angeleno (ec0b60) — 5/22/2011 @ 8:44 amhappyfeet: Perhaps Rev Wright can let you have one of his “chickens coming home to roost” at a good deal. He probably has plenty. Of course, you would have to wring it’s neck and pluck it. Not a fun job, I can assure you.
PatAZ (96c670) — 5/22/2011 @ 9:08 amAre you the kind of ninny who feels gratitude when ideas you don’t like are silenced, and anger when they aren’t?
Yes, you are.
However, what of all the voters who happily accept that they are taking more in benefits than they are paying in, and this is leading to a future American with dimmer prosperity and a heavy burden? Those people suck.
Dustin (c16eca) — 5/22/2011 @ 9:18 amWTF?! angeleno has descended into the realm of Kman and Larry Reilly, and is merely spewing ad homs? Geez! At least he used to TRY — wrongheaded though his thoughts may be — to make a point!
La-zy.
Icy Texan (81c642) — 5/22/2011 @ 9:37 amI think it should read “painted desert”, not “painted forest”. The painted desert / petrified forest national park is worth a visit though. Our family Jeep died at the last stop in the painted desert, leaving us stranded in Holbrook, AZ while it was repaired.
TCG (f04e32) — 5/22/2011 @ 9:42 amPerhaps we should be thankful Angeleno didn’t get an obamagasm.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 10:06 amhah Pat person I remember making this comment at another blog many moons ago…
click and see there’s just a lot of awesome about that kid
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/22/2011 @ 12:52 pmHot air?
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 12:54 pmno a nudder one I imagine you could google the quote and see
happyfeet (3c92a1) — 5/22/2011 @ 12:56 pmOh.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 1:12 pmThe LA Times must have neglected to mention that Mr. Bauer is a current (or former, or aspiring) member of the US Congress.
I mean, with sound fiscal planning like that, how could he not?
John Bradley (521155) — 5/22/2011 @ 1:21 pmThe bible says the world will end but it doesn’t specifically say.
And I believe Starvation will cause the world to end.
DohBiden (15aa57) — 5/22/2011 @ 1:25 pmConsidering his choice to blow off work for a week and road-trip the US while swimming in debt in the hope that the Rapture would come, I’m not sure why you’re shocked he got the name wrong…
I’d have expect him to have gone to Vegas because he’s always wanted to see a pyramid and Venice…
Scott Jacobs (d027b8) — 5/22/2011 @ 2:05 pmUh..The Rapture done Ruptured.
Paul Albers (23002d) — 5/22/2011 @ 3:01 pm